Jesup, Georgia

Jesup population, 2020 to 2024

Jesup added 424 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +160. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Jesup is 63% of it.

Jesup covers 16.55 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 618 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Jesup is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jesup is in

All of Jesup's residents live in Wayne County, which had 32,132 residents in 2024. Jesup holds 31.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jesup

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Jesup by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 31545, 31546, 31599. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Jesup is

The Census internal point of Jesup is at 31.594600, -81.895700. Atlanta, the capital, is 207.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hinesville, GA (36,583 people), 23.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Savannah, GA, 50.4 miles away.

Daylight in Jesup

At 31.59° N, Jesup gets about 14 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jesup

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Ludowici, 12.3 miles away, with 1,802 people.